Chip Pickering

Charles "Chip" Pickering, Jr. (10 August 1963-) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Mississippi's 3rd congressional district from 3 January 1997 to 3 January 2009, succeeding Sonny Montgomery and preceding Gregg Harper; he was a member of the US Republican Party.

Biography
Charles Pickering, Jr. was born in Laurel, Mississippi on 10 August 1963, the son of a US Republican Party-affiliated judge. Pickering graduated from the University of Mississippi and served as a Southern Baptist missionary to Hungary after the downfall of the atheist communist regime in 1989. From 1992 to 1996, he served under Senator Trent Lott as a staffer, and he was elected to the US House of Representatives on 3 January 1997. He left office in 2009, and Gregg Harper succeeded him. Pickering was charged with simple assault just eleven months after leaving an office, as he got into a fight with a rival soccer coach.